CC210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Binge Drinking, Deinstitutionalisation
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3 theories: medical/disease model, social learning/choice model, self-medication model. Crime and substance linkage theories: addiction comes first and drives criminality vs criminal lifestyle first followed by addiction: currently says that criminality come first and then addiction comes. Addiction: chronic, relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use: regardless of harmful consequences, interferes with everyday life (relationships, employment, taking care of self) Dependence syndrome: cluster of behavioural, cognitive, and psychological phenomena that develop over repeated use: Drug seeking behaviour, inability to control desire/behaviour, drug higher priority than other life activities, increased tolerance and physical withdrawal. Substance abuse: harmful/hazardous use of psychoactive substances (includes alcohol and illicit drugs) Substance abuse disorder: more neutral than substance abuse/addiction, encompasses full spectrum of related problems (minor to severe) includes issues of: Binge drinking: male 5 or more/female 4 or more on one occasion. Heavy drinking: binge drinking at least once per month over a year.
